Basic bibliographies

This is an introductory bibliography of some works by and on British Idealist and New Liberal philosophers. It is not exhaustive.

Primary

  • BOSANQUET, Bernard (1848–1923)
    • A History of Aesthetic [1892]
    • Aspects of the Social Problem [1895]
    • The Philosophical Theory of the State [1899]
    • Social and International Ideals: Being Studies in Patriotism [1917]
    • Some Suggestions in Ethics [1919]
  • BRADLEY, Francis Herbert (1846–1924)
    • Ethical Studies [1876]
    • The Principles of Logic [1883]
    • Appearance and Reality [1893]
    • Essays on Truth and Reality [1914]
    • Collected Essays [1935]
  • CAIRD, Edward (1835–1908)
    • A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant [1877]
    • Hegel [1883]
    • Essays on Literature and Philosophy [1892]
    • The Evolution of Religion [1893]
    • The Collected Works of Edward Caird [ed. C. Tyler, 1999]
  • COLLINGWOOD, Robin George (1889–1943)
    • Speculum Mentis [1924]
    • An Essay on Philosophical Method [1933]
    • The Principles of Art [1938]
    • An Autobiography [1939]
    • An Essay on Metaphysics [1940]
    • The New Leviathan [1942]
    • The Idea of Nature [1945]
    • The Idea of History [1946]
  • GREEN, Thomas Hill (1836–1882)
    • Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation
    • Prolegomena to Ethics [1883]
    • Works of Thomas Hill Green [ed. R. L. Nettleship, 1885–8]
  • HOBHOUSE, Leonard Trelawny (1864–1929)
    • The Labour Movement [1893]
    • Theory of Knowledge: A contribution to some problems of logic and metaphysics [1896]
    • Mind in Evolution [1901]
    • Democracy and Reaction [1905]
    • Morals in Evolution: a study in comparative ethics in two volumes [1906]
    • Liberalism [1911]
    • Social Evolution and Political Theory [1911]
    • Development and Purpose [1913]
    • The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples [1915]
    • The Metaphysical Theory of the State: A Criticism [1918]
    • The Rational Good: a study in the logic of practice [1921]
    • The Elements of Social Justice [1922]
    • Social Development: its nature and conditions [1924]
    • Sociology and Philosophy: a centenary collection of essays and articles [1966]

Anthologies

  • BOUCHER, David (ed.)
    • The British Idealists (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
    • The Scottish Idealists: Selected Philosophical Writings [2012]
  • TYLER, Colin (ed.), Unpublished Manuscripts in British Idealism: Political philosophical, theology and social thought, 2 volumes [2005]

Secondary

  • BOUCHER, David, The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood [1989]
  • BOUCHER, David, and VINCENT, Andrew, British Idealism: A Guide for the Perplexed [2011]
  • EWING, A. C., Idealism: A Critical Survey [1969]
  • GIBBINS, John R., ‘Liberalism, Nationalism and the English Idealists’, History of European Ideas 15 (4–6) [1992]: 491–497
  • GORDON, Peter, and WHITE, John, Philosophers as Educational Reformers: The Influence of Idealism on British Educational Thought and Practice [1979]
  • HALDAR, H., Neo-Hegelianism [1927]
  • JONES, Henry, and MUIRHEAD, J. H., The Life and Philosophy of Edward Caird [1921]
  • MANDER, W. J. (ed.), Anglo-American Idealism, 1865–1927 [2000]
  • MANDER, W. J, and PANAGAKOU, Stamatoula (eds), British Idealism and the Concept of the Self [2016]
  • MILNE, A. J. M., The Social Philosophy of English Idealism [1962]
  • MORROW, J., ‘Liberalism and British Idealist Political Philosophy: A Reassessment’, History of Political Thought, 10 (1) [1984]: 91–108.
  • NICHOLSON, P. P., The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists: Selected Studies [1990]
  • RITCHIE, D. G., The Principles of State Interference : Four Essays on the Political Philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer, J. S. Mill, and T. H. Green [1896]
  • ROBBINS, Peter, The British Hegelians 1875–1925 [1982]
  • SANTAYANA, George, ‘Fifty Years of British Idealism’, in his Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy: Five Essays [1933]

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